PAUL K | WAKE ISLAND
@wakeisland.bsky.social
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Wake Island: Exploring the Imagery, Sickness, and Energy of 2025
October Edition (Written by Paul K and David Leo Rice)
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10 days ago
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Wake Island: Exploring the Imagery, Sickness, and Energy of 2025
October Edition (Written by Paul K and David Leo Rice)
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10 days ago
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Wake Island: Exploring the Imagery, Sickness, and Energy of 2025
September Edition (Written by Paul K and David Leo Rice)
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about 1 month ago
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The rage bait has been taken, swallowed, digested. Rage is the sacrament of a church that’s lost its tether to the divine, a cleansing ritual that no longer cleanses but leads only to more rage, the ceaseless desire for the next hit.
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Wake Island: Exploring the Imagery, Sickness, and Energy of 2025
September Edition (Written by Paul K and David Leo Rice)
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about 1 month ago
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Joe bielecki
about 2 months ago
The newest Episode of Writing The Rapids is out now! I talked to
@raviddice.bsky.social
about his new book The Squimbop Condition (
@1111press.bsky.social
), and all that wild ride of a book entails. Take a listen.
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Rejoinder: The Squimbop Condition with David Leo Rice
YouTube video by Joe Bielecki
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a lot of demonic energy is surging out there today
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WAKE ISLAND (@wakeisland)
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2 months ago
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If July was Post-Paranoia, August is the breakdown of appetite. The Ozempic Era. What do you do when the bloodlust you think you’re resisting, but secretly crave, spills over because you can’t stomach any more?
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Wake Island: Exploring the Imagery, Sickness, and Energy of 2025
August Edition
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2 months ago
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If July was Post-Paranoia, August is the breakdown of appetite. The Ozempic Era. What do you do when the bloodlust you think you’re resisting, but secretly crave, spills over because you can’t stomach any more?
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Wake Island: Exploring the Imagery, Sickness, and Energy of 2025
August Edition
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2 months ago
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Southwest Review
3 months ago
Introducing THE SQUIMBOP CONDITION by the homie
@raviddice.bsky.social
🔥 This collection includes stories previously published in SwR so we're collabing with
@1111press.bsky.social
Pre-order the book and get our fall issue FREE 💥
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In the end,you can’t turn your head from the flood and be spared its damage. And even in doing so, you sense something is being withheld. Like an Escher drawing of a man staring at the back of his own head, looking away fuses with looking in, until you can’t separate walking away from walking toward
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WAKE ISLAND on Substack
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4 months ago
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If May was a month to regroup, then June is when shit hits the fan. The possible beginning of a world war lands on Friday the 13th, the same weekend as Father’s Day, my first as a daddy to my baby daughter.
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Wake Island: Exploring the Imagery, Sickness, and Energy of 2025
June Edition
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4 months ago
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Ocean Vuong is transgressive
5 months ago
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6/13/25
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THE INVERTED TOWER
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5 months ago
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Wake Island: Exploring the Imagery, Sickness, and Energy of 2025:
May Edition
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5 months ago
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Chris Santa Maria
6 months ago
"By far the most interesting and beautiful art book I've seen this year." -Paul Kwiatkowski aka Ghost Guessed aka
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I think we’re winning
6 months ago
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how to strategically and intellectually make a connection to the American pope with the new Ye song ?
6 months ago
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Ryan Shea
6 months ago
Love these, thanks
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@raviddice.bsky.social
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6 months ago
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April edition of the Wake Island Substack is live
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Wake Island: Exploring the Imagery, Sickness, and Energy of 2025:
April Edition
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6 months ago
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Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving. - David Burge
7 months ago
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Let’s gooooooooo!
7 months ago
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Don’t ask why I have this. I just do. Who wants it? XS.
7 months ago
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what are we doing on this platform ?
7 months ago
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7 months ago
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Finally seeing Bohren & der Club of Gore tonight — huge bucket list show for me. Been waiting years for this one
7 months ago
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The creep of normalization is a strange phenomenon to experience in real-time: to know how truly strange all of this is, and yet to experience that strangeness less and less intensely…Until strangeness is only a feeling that I know I ought to feel and yet not one I actually can
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7 months ago
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David Leo Rice
7 months ago
March edition of the
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Substack is live!
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Wake Island: Exploring the Imagery, Sickness, and Energy of 2025
March Edition
https://wakeisland.substack.com/p/wake-island-exploring-the-imagery-bf1
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“A wild spectacle to behold, like some dead-of-night sweepstakes show on the cable access channel of a nation-sized small town in an alternate dimension….” Read more at:
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7 months ago
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7 months ago
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“when this aim supersedes the desire to tell a story well, it dooms the project. And when, as has happened here, the sensibilities are not those held by the actual audience, but by an idealised progressive one, the project becomes a condescending exercise in wish-fulfillment.”
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8 months ago
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Timothée Chalamet straight up lookin like Anne Frank in this Chanel ad
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Feb 20: World’s First Musculoskeletal Robot ‘Comes to Life’ in Viral Video; Maker Says ‘You Can Stab It and it’ll Bleed’
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Montse Meneses Vilar
8 months ago
"I’m not watching; I’m anticipating, internalizing imminent decline, living within the rotoscoped logic of tragedy, where each headline confirms an inescapable pattern. Can society in psychosis gain enough momentum to thrive, to throw off whatever is weighting it down?"
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In the past, there was once a perverse unity in disaster, a sense that we were falling in unison, a shared trajectory, as if no one would be left behind when the world came undone. Today, that solidarity is gone.
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Wake Island: Exploring the Imagery, Sickness, and Energy of 2025
February Edition
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8 months ago
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9 months ago
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the most intense movie of 2024
9 months ago
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Stop stealing twink valor
9 months ago
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the only takeaway is bootcut jeans
9 months ago
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Is our interest in these images more than prurient, or is prurience, perhaps, a form of worship? A desire to look at the world rather than away from it, even if we can muster no true buy-in, no sense as to where we, the viewer, actually stand within the frothing morass?
9 months ago
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Our fantasies play out in reverse, the 100 cumshots rushing back into the cocks of pigeon-toed men shuffling in line to claim their fragment of connection with an algorithm. There's no excitement, only an exhausting math of bodies and numbers, endless consumption for a platform…
9 months ago
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